To be entirely accurate, Clive Petrie was a member of the Exclusive Brethren right up until accusations surfaced of past sexual misconduct. Petrie was then immediately shut up (shunned) by the Exclusive Brethren and was subsequently withdrawn-from (excommunicated).

The Exclusive Brethren sent their then current PR Spokesman, Anthony ‘Tony’ McCorkell to attempt to diffuse the growing scandal in New Zealand. McCorkell failed rather dismally and returned to his Australian employer, Exclusive Brethren leader, Bruce D. Hales. McCorkell’s efforts on behalf of the Exclusive Brethren attracted the attention of some investigative journalists and shortly thereafter he also faded from view.

So the Exclusive Brethren washed their hands of the man who had grown up within them, expelled him and left him to the courts. The law took its course …

Former Brethren jailed for sex crimes
The Nelson Mail
Dec 8th, 2009

An elderly former Exclusive Brethren member has been jailed for 2½ years for sexual crimes against four young girls and will pay them a total of $20,000 in reparations.

Clive Allen Petrie, 74, of Enner Glynn, was sentenced in the Nelson District Court this morning.

He had been found guilty by a Nelson jury in September of nine charges of indecently assaulting girls and one charge of inducing a girl under 12 to do an indecent act on him.

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